John Dienhart is the Frank Shrontz Chair for Professional Ethics and Professor of Management at Seattle University. He is the Director of the Northwest Ethics Network, an independent group of ethics and compliance officers from the Pacific Northwest; Director of the Albers Business Ethics Initiative, a five year program to promote ethics in organizations; and an Invited Fellow of the Ethics Resource Center in Washington DC. He consults with and does ethics training for Bonneville Power Administration, Costco, Holland America, Premera, Russell Investment Group, and Weyerhaeuser. He has taught in the leadership focused EMBA as Seattle University since 2002 and has taught business ethics to graduate and undergraduate students since 1980. Professor Dienhart has his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois Urbana and is a past President of the Society for Business Ethics. The Society is an international group of philosophers, economists, legal theorists, and business people devoted to the study and communication of business ethics and its role in leadership. His comments on business ethics have appeared in newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, the LA Times, the Puget Sound Business Journal, the Seattle Times, and the San Francisco Chronicle. Professor Dienhart has published four books, several articles, and made many presentations on ethics and leadership in business. His current focus is on leading organizational cultures to promote ethical behavior and compliance. His approach to the subject is described in his co-authored piece "The Ethical Commitment to Compliance: Building Value-Based Cultures" (With Tom Tyler of New York University and Terry Thomas, Principal, TRT Consulting, California Management Review (Winter 2008). Marc A. Cohen joined the faculty of the Albers School in the fall of 2008 as an Assistant Professor. He teaches business ethics at the undergraduate and MBA levels, undergraduate philosophy courses, and the Leadership-Executive MBA Capstone Project course. Professor Cohen earned a doctorate in Philosophy from the University of Pennsylvania, and holds a joint appointment in the philosophy department at Seattle University. His academic work concerns social contract theory and exploitation in business ethics; emotions, decision-making and rational agency in moral psychology; and more general questions in moral/ political philosophy about what makes society more than an accidental crowd. Prior to joining Albers, Prof. Cohen served as vice president and corporate strategist at Branch Banking & Trust Co. (North Carolina), as assistant vice president in the Bank's middle market commercial lending group, and as a management consultant at Mercer Management Consulting (now part of Oliver Wyman). He also served as adjunct faculty in the philosophy departments at George Washington University and Wake Forest University.
